 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 1546 pages
...citizen of another State in the Circuit Court of the United States, and gives to the Circuit Court 'original cognizance concurrent with the courts of the several States of all suits of a civil nature at common law and in equity,' &c., &c. It was certuinly intended to give to suitors, having a right... | |
 | Kentucky - Kentucky - 1873 - 986 pages
...be it further enacted, That the circuit courts shall Original cogm.... ... -. ranee of circuit nave original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of...where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars, and the United States are plaintiffs, or petitioners... | |
 | William A. Shinn - Bankruptcy - 1873 - 546 pages
...circuit courts, and we find by the seventeenth section of that act that such courts are vested with original cognizance concurrent with the courts of...or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds a certain sum stated, and the United States are plaintiff or petitioner, or an alien is a party, or... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1873 - 820 pages
...of the nine circuits, with the same B. Rogers, 7 Wall. 175. Beveral states,1 of all suits of a civil nature, at common law, or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds five hundred dollars, exclusive of costs, and the United States aie plaintiffs, or an alien 1 Original... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (7th Circuit), Josiah Hooker Bissell - District courts - 1874 - 590 pages
...September 24th, 17&9, commonly called the Judiciary Act, declared that the Circuit Court should have cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several...or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds the sum of $500, nml the United States are plaintiffs or petitioners. This grant was undoubtedly prospective.... | |
 | Henry Flanders - Constitutional law - 1874 - 296 pages
...jurisdictions. Congress, accordingly, have vested the Circuit Courts with original jurisdiction, concurrently with the courts of the several states, of all suits of a civil nature, where the matter in dispute exceeds five hundred dollars, exclusive of costs, and the United States... | |
 | Henry Flanders - Constitutional law - 1874 - 322 pages
...jurisdictions. Congress, accordingly, have vested the Circuit Courts with original jurisdiction, concurrently with the courts of the several states, of all suits of a civil nature, where the matter in dispute exceeds five hundred dollars, exclusive of costs, and the United States... | |
 | Law - 1875 - 722 pages
...House of Represmtatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the CircuitCourts of the United States shall have original cognizance,...where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum er value of five hundred dollars, and arising under the .constitution or laws of the... | |
 | Employers' liability - 1912 - 1074 pages
...situation the intention of Congress was reflected by the provision in the general jurisdictional Act, "That the circuit courts of the United States shall...exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value of two thousand dollars, and arising under the Constitution or laws of the United States." August 13,... | |
 | United States - Law - 1875 - 1084 pages
...Original jurisdic- States of America in Congress assembled, That the circuit courts of the tion of circuit United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent...the several States, of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in wcou W¿ases uifdoriaws, equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive... | |
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That the circuit courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several States, of all suits of a civil nature, at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs,... 
